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It is known as හෙනකදයා (henakadaya) in Sinhala; this name provided the name anaconda. [2] [3] [4] The species name pulverulenta is from Latin, named after its ashy or dusty grayish brown coloration. [5]
Location of Sri Lanka. The common trees and shrubs of Sri Lanka are a part of the diverse plant wildlife of Sri Lanka.. The following list provides the 704 species of common trees and shrubs of flora of Sri Lanka under 95 families.
This is a list of the mammal species recorded in Sri Lanka, with their respective names in Sinhala also listed. There are 125 mammal species in Sri Lanka, of which one is critically endangered, ten are endangered, ten are vulnerable, and three are near threatened. [1]
Mesua ferrea, the Ceylon ironwood, or cobra saffron, [2] is a species in the family Calophyllaceae native to the Indomalayan realm.This slow-growing tree is named after the heaviness and hardness of its timber.
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In biological taxonomy, a domain (/ d ə ˈ m eɪ n / or / d oʊ ˈ m eɪ n /) (Latin: regio [1]), also dominion, [2] superkingdom, realm, or empire, is the highest taxonomic rank of all organisms taken together. It was introduced in the three-domain system of taxonomy devised by Carl Woese, Otto Kandler and Mark Wheelis in 1990. [1]
2 Taxonomy. 3 Local names. 4 Distribution ... Download as PDF; Printable version ... Brandis notes the species is distributed in the outer ranges and valleys of the ...
Taxonomy is a practice and science concerned with classification or categorization. Typically, there are two parts to it: the development of an underlying scheme of classes (a taxonomy) and the allocation of things to the classes ( classification ).